Jeff Chew

Rival lavender groups clash over documents in Sequim

SEQUIM -- The breakup of Dungeness Valley lavender-growing groups into two associations grew more divisive this week, as lawyers for the Sequim Lavender Growers Association… Continue reading

Unconditional love, talents of game farm owners recalled at celebration of lives (***GALLERY***)

SEQUIM -- Olympic Game Farm founders Lloyd and Catherine Beebe were all about unconditional love of family, and that love was spread around to their… Continue reading

Clallam barns reminders of farming past

DUNGENESS -- With frames, rafters and planks of well-aged old-growth timber, many iconic barns of the Sequim-Dungeness Valley's past today gloriously display a majestic air… Continue reading

Sequim council discusses city’s future during two-day retreat

SEQUIM -- City Council members shared their visions of Sequim's future, with hopes ranging from a new City Hall on West Cedar Street between Second… Continue reading

Lavender Festival director leaves one group for the other

SEQUIM -- The newly formed Sequim Lavender Farmers Association -- which recently broke away from the Sequim Lavender Festival's original organization, Sequim Lavender Growers Association… Continue reading

Lavender fest producer bolts to new lavender farm fest

SEQUIM -- Sequim Lavender Farmers Association, the newly formed organization that recently broke away from the Sequim Lavender Festival's orginal group, Sequim Lavender Growers Association,… Continue reading

Dual Sequim lavender festivals this summer: Splinter group announces plans for tours, crafts site

SEQUIM -- A group of pioneering Sequim-Dungeness Valley lavender farmers who recently split from the Sequim Lavender Growers Association over philosophical and administrative differences will… Continue reading

Sequim council to evaluate itself, set priorities at weekend retreat

SEQUIM -- A City Council retreat this weekend will be an occasion to lay out objectives for the year and reflect on progress made in… Continue reading

Decision on Sequim planning director position due next month

SEQUIM -- City Manager Steve Burkett is still contemplating what to do with the planning director position vacated Oct. 31 when Dennis Lefevre agreed to… Continue reading

Shopping center space offers Sequim City Hall some wiggle room

SEQUIM -- City staffers have moved into newly remodeled shopping center space next to the Sequim Police Department to relieve tight work conditions at City… Continue reading

Memories, music, speeches mark Sequim High School’s first 100 years

SEQUIM -- Sequim High School pulled out all the stops Thursday to raucously celebrate its first 100 years. The centennial assembly drew hundreds of alumni… Continue reading

Sequim museum makes interim director permanent

SEQUIM -- The Museum & Arts Center in the Sequim-Dungeness Valley board has hired DJ Bassett, who has been serving as MAC interim executive director… Continue reading

Boys in girls’ dresses? Alumni tell in video how it was at Sequim High School

SEQUIM -- Sequim High School seniors David Richards and Harrison Mitchell, who teamed up to produce a 12-minute video with interviews of alumni dating back… Continue reading

Lavender farmers break away from growers association; festival will go on, growers group chief vows

SEQUIM -- A group of 11 lavender growers has broken away from the Sequim Lavender Growers Association, citing philosophical and administrative differences. They are forming… Continue reading

Sequim High School to hold its centennial celebration Thursday [**Gallery**]

SEQUIM -- High school alumni will be treated to a Thursday celebration of the first year, 100 years ago, that Sequim had a ninth-grade class.… Continue reading

Ex-Peninsula resident among dead in Tucson shootings; man died while shielding wife from hail of bullets

SEQUIM -- It is the story of a selfless hero who dove to the ground, covering his wife to protect her from a gunman's hail… Continue reading

Sequim-Dungeness history recalled by those who lived it

DUNGENESS -- Art Rogers remembers simpler times in the Sequim-Dungeness Valley when as a 12-year-old farm boy, he was hired to milk a dairy family's… Continue reading

Teen hit by car in serious condition

SEQUIM -- A 13-year-old Sequim boy hit by a car early Friday night on River Road near U.S. Highway 101 was listed in serious condition… Continue reading

State budget ax could cut fair funds significantly in Clallam, Jefferson counties

Clallam and Jefferson County fairs stand to feel the sharp blade of the state budget ax, along with other fairs statewide, should Gov. Chris Gregoire's… Continue reading

Visitors get glimpse of Native American sites on North Olympic Peninsula

SEQUIM -- Those wishing to travel to the beat of a native drum have a friend in Native American Footprints. The Sequim-based cultural and educational… Continue reading